Beast fable

The beast fable or beast epic, usually a short story or poem in which animals talk, is a traditional form of allegorical writing.[1] It is a type of fable in which human behaviour and weaknesses are subject to scrutiny by reflection into the animal kingdom.

Beast fables are typically transmitted freely between languages, and often assume pedagogic roles: for example, Latin versions of Aesop were standard as elementary textbook material in the European Middle Ages, and the Uncle Remus stories brought trickster tales into English. A more recent example, in English literature, was George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm, in which various political ideologies were personified as animals, such as the Stalinist Napoleon Pig, and the numerous "sheep" that followed his directions without question.